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BIBLICAL CRITICISM.
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At the time when the Greeks were driven by their conquerors from Constantinople , the latter might certainly be ranked among barbarous and uninformed nations ; but the Greeks of the nineteenth century are not warranted in applying the contemptuous expressions of their ancestors to the Turks
of later times , who have cultivated some parts of literature , particularly those relating to their own history , with great success , and have , probably , more real merit than many of the Byzantine writers .
The use of the press was first introduced in Constantinople in the reign of Achmet the Third ( in 1727 ) ; but in the interval of time which has since elapsed , the copies of few works of distinction and name have been multiplied by it . This is owing , according to the opinion of Sir William Jones ,
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On Philip , ii . 5—11 . Sir , March 10 , 1818 . AS Mr . [ JOr . ] Jones has totally misstated my argument , [ p . 123 , 3 ( no doubt undesignedly , ) his triumph over it must needs be a short one .
I have no where said , that cc the phrase , form of God , means the majesty which Jesus might have displayed had be employed his miraculous powers for his own aggrandisement ;"
but that the glory of which he emptied himself , meant this : * ' Being in the form of God" he emptied himself , not of the form of God , but of the glory of it . The common version has , * made himself of no reputation : "
and as the word sxeycucre will certainly bear this meaning , and it is in the spirit of the context , we should have less battling about words if it were retained . But " he must have been in the form of God , and in the form
of a slave at one and the same time - , " he most undoubtedly was so , but not in the same sense . He was in the form of God by actual derivation of power and commissioned authority ; or , speaking * spiritually : he was in the form of a slave to outward
observation , and with reference to worldly circumstances , or humanly speaking . It would be merely quibbling about terms , to say that a man could not empty ! himself of that which he still re ^
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to the difficulty of understanding the classical writings of the Turks , ' without more than a moderate knowledge of Persian and Arabic . Manuscript volumes are also preferred to printed works . The French were accustomed
to send to them books published in oriental types , but only a small number was purchased . Characters formed in writing are considered as more pleasing to the eye , and as capable of being connected and combined in a more
beautiful manner , than in printing . There are , it may be added , many hundred scribes and copyists , who would lose all means of support , if books could be circulated at a cheap rate by the press . Memoirs relating to European and Asiatic Turkey ; edited from Manuscript Journals , by Robert Walpole , M . A . 4 to . 1817 , pp . 24 , 25 .
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tained ,. for " empty himself" is plainly a metaphorical expression . If a king travel incognito , he divests himself of his dignity , though he still retains it ; that is , he divests himself of it in one
sense , and retains it in another ; he declines the use or display of it 5 but the dignity is still attached to his person . The Son of God might be said to divest himself , not of the form of God , nor strictly of the attributes
of that form or likeness , but of the use or assertion of them . The objection , therefore , that if miraculous power constituted the form of God , his divesting himself of this form is not consistent with fact , fails to the ground . Christ was in the form of God , or
invested with peculiar majesty of power , in what respected the objects of his heavenly mission ; but he emptied himself of the glory of it in what respected himself personally . When he cast out lunacy or raised the dead , he was visibly , and by virtue of operation , iu the form of God : when he
" had no where to lay his head , " he was still in the form of God , but outwardly in that of a slave : when he " was taken from prison and from judgment , " he was still in the form of God ; but to outward eves in that of a slave : he did not assume the glory of that form of God , which he would have done had he called upon his
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Biblical Criticism , —Reply to Dr . Jones on Philip , ii . 5 . —II . lgl
Biblical Criticism.
BIBLICAL CRITICISM .
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), March 2, 1818, page 191, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2474/page/39/
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